MUCHOS NINOS

Saturday we finished Catarinos house before we attended the monthly Pastors dinner at Pastor Eduardo's Baptist Church. We all meet once a month to discuss various aspects of ministry in the colonia and what we can all work together on. About half of the Pastors were there this time and we had a great time in the word, in prayer and in the breaking of bread together. Paula and I wanted to get their feedback on whether we should continue feeding the colonia at our ministry center once a month, or if the Pastors would prefer distributing the food at their churches. We all see the need for the food hand out, and the Pastors want the people to look to God for their provision as do we, so we'll let them hand out the food once a month and see how that works. We really enjoy having everyone come to our place to hear a message and receive Gods blessing of provision, so maybe we'll do a hot dog outreach once a month or something. The family in the photo is Martin and his wife Maria. They have seven children and her sister also lives in the back section of their makeshift house and she has six kids. A family from our church in Mcallen wanted to donate the money to build a house for a family, so this is the family we see with the greatest need right now. The problem, as so often the case, is that some of the old house will have to come down to make room for the new. I'm trying to figure out if there is enough room to build the sister a house as well on the same lot. Today we pour the concrete roof on the classrooms at Pastor Victors church. It was going to be wood and tin, but since my knee can't handle the work on the roofs yet, we decided to spend the extra money and do the concrete roof and then we can build a wood addition on top one day. Adios, gotta go